The present invention is a method for GPS positioning in a weak signal
environment. The method includes obtaining assistance data for a GPS
signal from a satellite at a predetermined time, wherein the assistance
data including predicted navigation data, Doppler shift and Doppler shift
rate and the GPS signal being modulated by a carrier signal, a
pseudorandom code and navigation data, estimating a predicted receiving
time for the GPS signal reaching the GPS receiver, capturing the GPS
signal, converting the GPS signal to an intermediate frequency signal,
acquiring a code phase of the pseudorandom code from the intermediate
frequency signal by using the assistance data and the predicted receiving
time, and obtaining a position for the GPS receiver based on the
predicted navigation data and the code phase of the pseudorandom code. To
acquire the code phase of the pseudorandom code, the GPS receiver
corrects a real time clock to one millisecond accuracy and process the
intermediate frequency signal through coherent correlation of one second.